In this post-apocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. It is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.--From publisher description.
Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007.
Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007.
Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
| Year | Award | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Locus Poll Award | Best SF Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| 2007 | Quill Award | General Fiction | Winner |
| 2012 | Locus Online | 21st Century Science Fiction Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The Road | Picador | Novel | ||
| September 2006 |
|
The Road | Alfred A. Knopf | Novel | |
| October 2006 |
|
The Road | Alfred A. Knopf / SFBC | Novel | |
| 2007 | The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | ||
| 2007 |
|
The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | 3 |
| March 2007 | The Road | Alfred A. Knopf | Novel | ||
| March 2007 |
|
Die Straße | Rowohlt | Novel | |
| March 2007 |
|
The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | |
| March 2007 |
|
The Road | Turtleback Books | Novel | |
| March 2007 |
|
The Road | Perfection Learning | Novel | |
| May 2007 |
|
The Road | Picador | Novel | |
| June 2007 |
|
The Road | Picador | Novel | 1 |
| July 2007 |
|
La carretera | Mondadori España | Novel | |
| November 2007 |
|
De weg | De Arbeiderspers | Novel | |
| January 2008 |
|
La route | Editions de l'Olivier | Novel | |
| April 2008 |
|
Die Straße | Rowohlt Taschenbuch | Novel | |
| October 2008 |
|
The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | |
| November 2008 |
|
The Road | Pan Books | Novel | |
| November 2008 |
|
The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | |
| November 2009 |
|
The Road | Picador | Novel | |
| November 2009 |
|
The Road | Vintage Books | Novel | |
| December 2009 |
|
The Road | Picador | Novel | |
| January 2010 |
|
The Road | Picador | Novel | |
| October 2010 |
|
Die Straße | Rowohlt Taschenbuch | Novel | |
| November 2019 |
|
Soulmates | Süddeutsche Zeitung | Omnibus |